If there was no heaven, would you still worship God?

Question

Instead, everyone goes to hell.

I'm not saying selfishness is bad. Maybe some greed is good, otherwise you could give all of yourself and destroy yourself for nothing.

Answer 1

Think carefully on this soul-searching question: If you should die right now, do you know for sure that you would go to Heaven?

If your answer is anything other than, "Yes I'm absolutely certain that my sins are forgiven and that Heaven will be my home," then this important message is just for you.



The Bible teaches that you need to know and believe four things to settle this matter of your eternal destination:

You must accept that you are a sinner. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). No one is exempt from this indictment. Everyone has sinned. Romans 5:12 says, "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." No one is perfect and no one can live up to God's perfect standard. We are sinners by nature.
You must accept that as a sinner you owe a penalty. "For the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23a). Because of our sin we owe a debt. This debt is a spiritual death or separation from God in the lake of fire known as Hell. Hell is not a figment of someone's imagination or only a figurative term. Hell is very real. It is a literal burning place. It's not a place where you go because your friends will be there and you want to have a good time. It is a dark, lonely, seething, burning place, and it never ends. It continues to burn for all time. The worst part is, there is nothing you or I can do on our own to avoid it. Outside of Jesus, it is our final destination. If you are depending on your church membership to get you to Heaven, beware; it's not enough. If you pray a lot hoping to get to Heaven, don't depend on that; it's not enough either. Even if you give a lot of money to a church, it's not enough to gain Heaven. Many people think if they are good enough, they will be able to slip in through the gate when no one is looking or find a hole in the gate somewhere. Please, my friend, don't depend on something so shaky. It can't happen that way. There is only one way to get to Heaven. How?
You must accept that Jesus Christ has already paid our sin debt."But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). Christ was not a sinner, and the Bible teaches that God took all of our sin and placed it on Christ. While Christ was bearing all our sins in His own body, God punished Him in our place to pay the debt we owe. This is not something God promised to do. It is something He has already done. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). It is a fact: Jesus Christ has already paid your sin debt.
You must accept by faith what Jesus Christ did for you. "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" (John 3:36). In this verse, the world is divided into two groups: those who are believing and those who are not believing on the Son. Those who believe have everlasting life, and those who don't believe shall not see life.


The word "believe" means to trust, to depend on, to rely on. To believe on the Lord Jesus Christ means that you accept the fact that you are a sinner, that as a sinner you owe the sin penalty, and that Jesus Christ died on the cross, was buried, and arose again on the third day to pay the debt you owe. But it means going one step further: it means that you will completely trust Christ to get you to Heaven, that you will place the matter of your salvation in His hands and depend on Him alone for everlasting life.

The moment you do this, God promises you are not condemned but have everlasting life and that you will never perish in Hell. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life" (John 5:24).

Answer 2

It is the fear of the unknown that causes people to invent their gods and an afterlife. Back in the days of the creation of religions people had to bow down to their leaders. Since not everyone wanted to bow to another man, the kings worked to control the priests and the religions to keep their people in line. Heaven was created so people could be made to see that there was something more then their miserable existence if only they believed and obeyed. Hell was created to scare people into acting as the priests and kings wanted them to.


A free person worships no one.
Freedom, practice it.

Answer 3

The Jews were not promised heaven yet they still worship God. Some Jewish groups have decided that there is a heaven and others disagreed, but regardless, they still worship God.

So the answer is yes.

Answer 4

The God I worship revealed a book that says there is a heaven. Regardless, God is the only one worthy of worship. I think I have have to worship God just to keep my sanity. Is that selfish? Maybe so, but I'm still going to do it they way I'm going to do... not the way any one else does.

Answer 5

What do you think heaven is?

Heaven is being in the presence of the God who made you.

If you don't believe, it is because God hasn't called you.
Would you like him to?
He will if you ask. Then you will have no doubt.
When God touches you, you know you've been touched.
And as you can see, "I'm a little touched"
But seriously, He does love you and you can be sure he is God and that Jesus died in your place so that you can have a relationship with your creator.

Here any time ya need
and ready to pray.
Gypsy Priest

Answer 6

"Heaven and earth shall pass away" means that they will not continue to exist as separate states.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a place.

Buddyxlee - I am not an Atheist, I am a Christian. I believe in God and I believe in Heaven. I am not trying to convince anyone that Heaven doesn't exist. I just think your interpretation of scripture is too literal. So, my answer is Yes - if there were no Heaven, I would still worship God.

Answer 7

I am more intrigued by the reverse of that statement.
If there were no god would you still go to heaven?

I am wondering if you mean should we worship god just to get a reward or because we like him for himself.

Answer 8

Theresa: G-d lives in Heaven and Yeshua (Jesus) by his own word said he was going to build a place for us in Heaven. Therefore Heaven is a place.

Using the above your question is unanswerable. As much as you and every Atheist wishes to prove Heaven doesn't exist, and G-d the same, you can't. That must really tick you off. Just because you can't find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Answer 9

yes ofcourse, my life is like little bit hell now. but still i pray and believe in Allah.even if things get worse still i think i wont give my faith away. so there is no question about heaven. i would hav definately worshipped God even if there was no heaven.

Answer 10

I belong to a faith where there is no afterlife at all, and I still worship. I worship because the Divine is the Divine...not because of any kudos it promises me (because it doesn't).
I am moved to worship because of it's power and majesty.

Answer 11

I would like to say yes. But honestly I don't know. God has done a lot in my life, so I would like to think yes. But I believe there is a heaven, so thats not an issue.